OUR MISSION

To foster the arts and crafts by providing a wide range of instruction for adults and children. Castle Hill holds exhibitions, lectures, forums, concerts and other similar activities in order to promote social interaction among artists, craftsmen, laymen, and the community at large.

Letter from President | Letter from Executive Director

SPECIAL EVENTS 2010

Provincetown Dance Festival
Oct. 23 & 24, 2009.
Photo by Dee Portnoy 2005

Summer 2010

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

July 25 - Artist Studio Tour featuring studios in Truro and Wellfleet: (Truro) Nancy Craig, N. Cameron Watson, Mona Dukess, Jill Epstein, Mary Fassett, Leslie Jackson, Francie Randolph& Tom Watson, (Wellfleet) Robert Henry & Selina Trieff, Julia Salinger, Tom O'Connell, & Robert Rindler - Watch for details! Tickets are $25.00, $20.00 for members CLICK HERE

August 7 - The Castle Hill Benefit Auction

August 25 – Solo performance by Tim Miller – “LAY OF THE LAND” Performance at the Provincetown Art House 7:00 pm

August 27 - Tim Miller's Workshop Performance at the Provincetown Art House - 7:00pm

August 22 - Castle Hill Modernist House Tour in collaboration with the Cape Cod Modern House Trust - SOLD OUT

Lachay House and Studio 1959, Hayden Walling, Wellfleet

The house was home and studio to renowned Wellfleet painter, James Lechay and his family.

Vanderburgh House 1964, Ernest Vaderburgh, Wellfleet

Vanderburgh, minister of St Marys in church and first director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown built this house with a group of P-town artist friends after his first house burned down.

Kuhn 1960, Saltonstall and Morton, Wellfleet

This house was designed for Thomas Kuhn a famed physicist who poularized the term 'paradigm shift' and his family.

Berger House 1972, Charlie Zehnder, Truro

Zehnder designed this house for modern composer Arthur Berger.

The Flato House. Wellfleet, 1954 (altered by Hayden Walling)

The house was designed in 1954 by nieghbor Serge Chermayeff
for Charles Flato. After his death in 1984 and after the fall of the Soviet Union it was revealed that Flato had been a spy for the Russians for much of his life. The house is a variation on Chermayeff's Summer house prototype, an number of which are nearby.

September 11: Castle Hill "Paints The Race & Schooner Regatta" the best deal in town to see the race and also be around artists and photographers.

October 22 & 23: The 6th Annual Provincetown Dance Festival

Poetry Reading & Lectures

ALL LECTURES WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE WELLFLEET PUBLIC LIBRARY @ 8:00 pm

July 20 – Alison Saar: She studied art and art history at Scripps College and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute. She has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment Fellowships.

July 27 – Brooke Newman:A writer whose fable for adults, The Little Tern sold over a million copies. Brooke's memoir, Jenniemae & James: A Memoir in Black and White, to be published this Spring, is set in the 1940's and 50's and recollects the unlikely relationship between her father, an aloof, white mathematical genius, and their maid, an illiterate, uneducated African American who had a knack with numbers.

Aug 3 – Dorianne Laux & Joe Millar: Poetry Reading - Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received the 2005 Oregon Book Award. Joseph Millar is the author of Fortune (Eastern Washington University Press). His first collection, Overtime (2001) was a finalist for theOregon Book Award and the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Aug 10 – Dan Okrent is the author of the forthcoming Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, to be published by Scribner in May. He began working on Last Call shortly before he concluded his term as the first Public Editor of the New York Times in 2005. He had retired as Editor-at-Large of Time Inc. in July 2001, after serving three years in that post, three years as the company’s Editor of New Media, and four years as Managing Editor of Life magazine. Prior to arriving at Time Inc. in 1991, Okrent worked extensively in book and magazine publishing in editorial and executive positions. In the book industry, he was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and at the Viking Press, and editor-in-chief of general books at Harcourt Brace, Inc. In magazines, he was president and editor of New England Monthly (twice consecutively winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence). On television, he was a featured commentator on Ken Burns’s PBS series, Baseball. As a writer, he has published four books – most recently (May 2006) Public Editor Number One, an annotated collection of his Times columns. His Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history. A native of Detroit and a graduate of the University of Michigan, the 61-year-old Okrent lives in Manhattan and in Wellfleet with his wife, poet Rebecca Okrent. They have two adult children.

Aug 17 – Harriet Reisen: a former fellow in screenwriting at the American Film Institute, has written dramatic and historical documentary scripts for PBS and HBO, and has delivered commentaries for Morning Edition and Marketplace. Her interest in Louisa May Alcott dates back to her marathon reading of Alcott’s eight children’s novels after her mother presented her with a copy of Little Women. Over the past twenty years, what began as a passion for the subject developed into a documentary biography of Louisa May Alcott, written and produced by Reisen and directed and produced by Nancy Porter. After winning a Cine Gold Eagle and several top film festival awards, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women premiered on PBS’s American Masters in December. Reisen’s highly-acclaimed print biography of the same title was published by Holt in 2009 and named to the Wall Street Journal's Top Ten Standout Books, BookPage's Top Ten Nonfiction Books, Booklist's Top Five Adult Nonfiction Books suitable for young adult readers, and to other top lists. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women will appear as a Picador paperback in November.

Sept 10 – Poetry Reading: Maxine Kumin: Her sixteenth poetry collection, Still to Mow, appeared in 2007 in her 82nd year, following Jack and Other New Poems, The Long Marriage, and Selected Poems 19860-1990. She is also the author of Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry, and a memoir, Inside the Halo and Beyond: Anatomy of a Recovery. Her awards include the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Harvard Arts and the Robert Frost Medals. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now titled Poet Laureate) in 1980-81. She and her husband live with their dogs and horses on a farm in New Hampshire, where for many years they bred and raised Arabians and competed in distance rides and drives.

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